skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes RDF is in its own niche -- data interchange. And that's where merge matters, when you for example need to merge protein data with genes and drugs etc. A bunch of pharma companies are using RDF Knowledge Graphs for that purpose. The need for data interchange comes with a certain company size, and that point RDF becomes the solution because there are no real alternatives.

I'm not talking about replacing JSON with RDF. Don't need data interchange -- don't use RDF. RDF is both at a different level of abstraction and solving problems of different scope.
Which hedge funds received bailouts? This insistence on viewing Wall St as a monolithic entity is just asinine. I can assure you the investment bankers at Goldman are not losing any sleep over GameStop.
its about simple html and older devices, so just plain button will do the job.
You were paying 48$/employee for a LDAP integration?
Buckminster Fuller on a long thin wire
ftfy!

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/27/hedge-fund-targeted-by-reddi...

"Melvin Capital closed out its short position in GameStop on Tuesday afternoon after taking a huge loss, the hedge fund’s manager told CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin."
2 if you look at what’s happening with GameStop
You have a rather charitable interpretation of the show. I saw 4 powerful combative "investors" holding ordinary folks in their fists, playing with their lives, and sometimes even verbally abusing them. The show offers a lottery ticket on top of the lottery ticket out of day-to-day work that is creating a new business. What invention the participants bring is commodified a second time, a double grotesquerie. I absolutely can't stand it, and the show, in teaching viewers to hold unsuccessful contestants in contempt, also promotes a sort of circus-like misanthropy.
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze so I'm biased and you should keep me honest.

> they probably haven't thought about it in such stark terms

Backblaze takes security incredibly seriously, and I assure you we have thought about it in such stark terms.

Expounding on that: Backblaze never raised any significant VC funding, we survive entirely on sales of our products, and most of that is keeping our customer's data utterly private, confidential, and safe. As this is the business we are in, our reputation is INCREDIBLY important to us. If we have a major breach we'll most likely lose our customer's trust, lose all our customers, and go out of business.

Since this is all I've done for the last 14 years, and my income and life savings is all wrapped up in Backblaze, I take this issue as seriously as a heart attack. So do my business partners (Backblaze was founded by 5 equal partners.) We're also up to around 200 employees who all would suffer greatly if we lose the trust of our customers.

Internally, Backblaze has a "Security Council" of software engineers and technical operations people with something like a combined 150 years of security experience and obsession. One of these council members got his CS degree from MIT and is both one of the smartest people I've ever worked with (we've worked together at 3 separate companies so far over 25 years) and also deeply paranoid and stressed out all the time. Another of the security council members has a PhD in computer science. And so on... They watch over all the design proposals, the APIs, the technical infrastructure, everything at Backblaze. They propose and implement new procedures, new programs like our BugCrowd program where we have external white hat hackers constantly trying to break in. We are also going through an internal security audit right now paying consultants to get yet another perspective.

In addition to the Security Council, all software engineers and all technical operations people are expected to worry about security all of the time. It is quite possibly our most talked about, most worried about, most important thing we do.

> I'm sure their development practices will improve

We always, ALWAYS strive to do better and do more.
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to me it looks like a virtual "Occupy WallStreet". To scare and make squeal the fat hedge funds shorts. Kind of fun. It wouldn't last for long, though the shorts will probably be looking over their shoulders for years to come. The movement's rank-and-file will probably get hurt while the leaders will probably do fine. "Investing" is just not an applicable term here - i mean you aren't investing buying a ticket for rollercoaster ride, you're buying fun and amusement. Or a chance to make your voice and discontent heard. At least that is what seems to be sold to the rank-and-file.

Old school view here would probably see classic "pump-and-dump" by the few "leaders" who incited that frenzy. SEC though seems to lag far behind in understanding and dealing with the power of social media.

(Anyway, thanks for the surprisingly nice AMC ride, i happened to have a bit in a gamble that they would survive the lockdown. )
Aren't you in Vancouver? I've had landlords here that would absolutely do something like that. Many slumlords would do anything they think they can get away with.
You could say the same about bakeries ("seeking to maximize their profits on other people's basic needs").

IMO the problem is more about (very) imperfect competition. Also medicine is very special in many ways (desperate buyers, doctors making decisions for them, moral and emotional weight, etc.), so it's hard to have incentives aligned.
Could it be a message? Why to send from place to place a radio signal when we could set up a bunch of planets in an improbable/impossible regular configuration to be noticed from everywhere during a very long time frame?

Probably it is the argument of several existing science fiction books.
Which in turn creates another long term disaster waiting to happen.
>why Intel's IDM model is a good thing

this podcast with SemiWiki Founder Daniel Nenni. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4DgXtxkZNg

good discussion on how we go from IDM (real man have fab) to the foundry business model.
I prefer this one: http://www.math.wm.edu/~leemis/chart/UDR/UDR.html
Any fire with flames is something around 600C and up to even double that. Air is relatively cheap to heat up. I'd wager the combustion process, once fully started, won't suffer much if the ambient temperature is -30C or +30C: the fire is still on a temperature scale that's an order of magnitude higher.

Even on a summer day a good breeze of wind or just blowing into the fire too hard yourself will put it out but only if it was just starting. Once the fire is rooted in something more solid, combustible material it will easily heat up any fresh air that is conveyed into the fire.
I think China introduced a law recently, limiting usage to a certain amount time.
Updated! This is my list of 'Other WebRTC implementations' from FOSDEM talk, mea culpa :(

mediasoup is moving towards dropping Google's implementation https://github.com/versatica/mediasoup/issues/344 excited to see congestion controllers that are easily usable by others!
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I think the Centralia fire is a great reference - or really any coal seam fire. The interesting thing to me is how this fire is continuing among blisteringly cold surface temperatures - but then again those fires have very little exposure to the surface and earth insulates extremely effectively. It only takes a few feet of earth to effectively dampen surface temperature changes - which is why ice houses were such a commonly used tool.
I have trialed this several times, not using chrome and everytime I then use it, the site can be found on google. Remember, these sites are completely unlinked and fresh URLs. So, yeah it really does..
Robust competition doesn’t exist without strong regulation, because the natural state of competition is monopoly even with a medium barrier to entry. Almost all of our companies nowadays are high barrier to entry.
Have you completely discounted that this thing was calculated? Plenty of professionals probably foresaw the squeeze.
I don't see that's there's anything magical about 100%. In a short squeeze, the shorts buy stock on the open market at a high price and immediately return the stock. Some of this stock will find it's way back onto the open market. The shorter can buy that same stock a second time at a different price and immediately return it.

The real key is daily volume vs. volume shorted.

Shares outstanding - about 70M

Daily volume - about 24M

So if shorts were the only ones buying, it would take about 3 days of normal volume to unwind their positions.

But with the price going up, many others are competing with the short sellers to buy shares right now. So volume will go up and/or it will take longer to unwind.

Recently, the daily volume has gone up to 110M shares. A lot of those shares are being bought and sold more than once per day.

There's nothing magical about 100% of outstanding shares.
But it's a huge problem that the shorts outstanding are so high relative to daily volume.
OOP is meant for re-use across different projects.
Frameworks, or self-contained classes.
Probably burn something underground. So we're seen smoke from ground.
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I take the point. Removing land from the potential to be developed is different from removing land from production.

Not that anyone is saying this directly, but I disagree with the argument that good, productive land left fallow is better than good productive land that is producing.

My brother makes a living and feeds his family based on his wood lot. Traces of original settlers from nearly two hundred years ago are found throughout the forest. Which is to say, it is pretty obvious now that it was not suited for farming.

But as forest, it is wonderful. There are at least six species of viable commercial trees at scale. Maple, oak, cedar, black cherry, pine. Most original species, or those introduced by the original indigenous people or the first settlers. The crab apple trees pop up in strange places.

My brother has a government approved forestry management plan that takes from the forest each year far, far less than what the forest produces. The forest will remain diverse and support a family well, indefinitely.

The trees are coming out in a managed way that is creating trails, with clear evidence that wildlife is making good use of the trails. Across the forest, he has installed a wide assortment of habitat for species at risk, birds, bats and others, several of which had not been seen in the area for generations - and they are being used! Under the managed forest, wildlife is returning in which there is no evidence had been there for at least two generations. This wildlife is moving into the adjacent conservation authority land, not the other way around.

If this was not an owned and managed forest, this would be happening at a much slower rate.

If I had to compare that against a plan that left the land alone, I'd tilt my hand to the one that actually supported people, in harmony with nature.
https://blog.seekwell.io/gpt3
In general, object orientation is a reasonably elegant way of binding together a compound data type and functions that operate on that data type. Let us accept this at least, and be happy to use it if we want to! It is useful.

What are emphatically not pretty or useful are Python’s leading underscores to loosely enforce encapsulation. Ugh. I’d sooner use camelCase.

Nor do I find charming the belligerent lack of any magical syntactic sugar for `self`. Does Python force you to pass it as an argument to make some kind of clever point? Are there psychotic devs out there who call it something other than `self`? Yuck!

And why are some classes (int, str, float) allowed to be lower case but when I try to join that club I draw the ire from the linters? The arrogance!

...but I still adore Python. People call these things imperfections but it’s just who we are.

PS I liked the Python5 joke a lot.
Universal health care may be a more pragmatic approach than "ban lobbying", IMO.
I’d say a phase change is fairly significant.
The "sometimes" there being "when you live in a country that respects businesses more than humans"

The market should never be relied on to be the one to fix injustice.
I wish this would be the case. The button will not be focusable, so we need to add tabindex="0". A disabled div with role="button" is not handled as disabled, so we need to take care of that. Keyboard space/enter will not be triggered on "click" event, unlike real buttons, hence excluding keyboard users. You can check my playground [1] - I'm using it to demo why one should prefer native over custom components.

[1] https://darekkay.github.io/presentations/accessible-web/reso...
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This is something people often forget, nothing is objectively good or bad as they are social/individual constructs. Even things like killing or theft could be seen as good looking through the right lens.
Excuse me. You started this by saying you were trying to deploy capital more efficiently. You appear to have abandoned that premise.
> Can we just appreciate the level of moral depravity needed to price fix medication?

First thing I thought of:

Valeant Pharmaceuticals
Air is cheap to warm.

Water in fuel is expensive
The implicit premise here is that your website requires HTTPS only and that a theoretical downgrade attack is enough to justify not having http at all.

Most websites don't even need HTTPS and the complications and sacrifice of autonomy required isn't worth it. Remember, there are no cert authorities that are human people. They are all corporations or institutions. Having to get an incorporated entity's permission to communicate will have dangerous consequences eventually. HTTPS everywhere is done with the best of intentions but it will be the centralizing push that provides juicy targets for government and corporate censorship.
You're right, it's not fixed. It caps at 14% for outside brands, 15% for "Kirkland" brands, but averages at 11% (2019).
https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/how-does-costco-compete-with-...

Contrast to markups of 25 to 50% for typical retail, and for generic drugs in the thousands.
https://www.thepharmaletter.com/article/1-000-pharmacy-mark-...
I think OO caught on because it encourages people to organize their thoughts, and good structure alone brings a tremendous improvement in code.

I think the reaction to it is more the "everything is mutable" approach most OO languages took, which led to things that looked organized but that were a hot mess of side-effects.

With dataclasses (or attrs) you can cut back on that by freezing everything, and still get the clarity of methods that lay out the essential functionality of a type.

In their own example, "get_items" and "save_items" make a bit more sense if they're stashed away in the Client namespace, and you can see that they're essential to what a Client does.

And while Oil's conjecture is probably right, I'm not sure it survives if you add the caveat, "in that same language."

For instance, Python doesn't have a native way of expressing sum types outside of inheritance. That's not to say inheritance, especially an always open style, is a good way of working with a sum type, it's just the only native way.
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Unless we get NAT-PMP or PCP in the browser I don't know if we have an alternative.

In the LAN I am excited about this thread https://discourse.wicg.io/t/idea-local-devices-api-lan-servi...
Selling stuff is probably sufficient but not necessary to qualify as commerce.
There certainly wasn't this hysteria about cancel culture when it was solely the tool of large, well-funded conservative and religious organisations - Mothers Against Dungeons & Dragons is the example that comes to mind for me immediately from when I was younger.

Now that just any old pleb can express an opinion on the actions and comments of their betters it seems that collective expressions of disapproval with the intent of exerting power is a bad thing!

"Cancelling" is a boycott in the marketplace of ideas. The left and the right should find something to appeal to them there!
> a non-charitable approach would be to undercut by only 30-50% instead of 90%

Not if you're fighting deeply entrenched incumbents. Switching costs are huge, financially and politically. You need patients to hammer their providers to give them access to these drugs through this channel.

50% off is big, but it's something incumbents could match. 90% off leaves you with a profit margin, gets you PR points and holds the hounds at bay. Bonus: if you work out your competitors' debt loads and price at a level that they couldn't, financially, sustain.
I made no statement about "objective" morality. I explained my own morals, and why I'm comfortable encouraging people to blame the wealthy for the harms they perpetuate. Could you please elaborate on how you think this reply is relevant to that?

As slow as it seems to be, my perception is that societal attitudes towards wealth have been shifting over the past few decades. I'm hopeful that one day, the tolerance for their misdeeds continue to dropbenough to inspire progressively more social and legal change, as you suggested.
Those are good points.

I think however, cancel culture in particular, is a phenom of the Left right now.

Weaponizing conspiracy (QAnon, Elections, COVID) is a culture of the Right, no doubt.

Both sides are fully aware of what they are doing and leveraging it on purpose (not all, but many).

The thing is - if we have good institutions then we can hold out against QAnon. But cancel culture I think is actually a corrosion of our institutions.

QAnon and COVID conspiracies are not a problem at Harvard, whereas Cancel Culture is, in fact, it's being driven little bit from places like that.
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I've written my own gitlab-ldap integration when I was at a startup, done purely with the gitlab API and a cron job. It took me half a day, and didn't have to touch the script for the three years it was in production afterwards.

So, no, this was absolutely productive. This isn't a particularly hard problem to solve.
I mean, cold itself (within Earthly limits) doesn't put out fires. In fact, it might make them burn better due to convection.

That said, this reminded me of a lake in Chelyabinsk that is so polluted you can set it on fire according to some locals (I don't remember the video, it was a few Russians filming a short tour of the city)
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A decent rule of thumb I sometimes apply is:

1. What I have could be formalized into a state machine.
2. That state machine needs to be reused and re-entered.
3. I want to apply inputs to the state machine with method calls.

Of course you can overapply the thought and end up with an enterprise architecture - that's why YAGNI is important. But when a section builds up a bit of conceptual redundancy there's usually a state machine that can be pulled out of it in OO form.

And I would certainly do it that way in Python, as well as other languages.
What's your opinion of Project Censored?

https://www.projectcensored.org/top-25-censored-stories-of-a...

Just to pick any example:

What's the culture war label for the fate of journalist Abby Martin?

https://www.projectcensored.org/24-silenced-in-savannah-jour...
This might have started on social media, but make no mistake that the professionals are the ones that piled on to take advantage of the situation.
Yes, but I think both are happening in the US. Hollowing out of manufacturing along with entrenched interests. Millennials get to feel both: expensive schooling ending up in low paid, dead end service jobs and gigs.
.. and happily so. We (few) devs like gitlab and it was a relatively cheap way to keep the devs happy. The feel-good factor about giving something back. Now it grows to a number that people will actually notice :/

Note that it's not the basic ldap authentication but ldap group sync and especially admin accounts in our case. Basic ldap auth works on the free plan. (ldap authed users take a subscription seat, which costs $0 on the free plan)
There are 3 million people at WSB. Are you calling all 3 million "incels" and "white male" or whatever? Why are you calling them "these people"?

Do you think their opinions are less than yours?
That's fine, though. Building it takes time and money (people, materials, whatever). You're going to have to explain your idea to your investors in order to raise capital. During that process, you need to be protected from them taking your idea and starting a separate business behind your back.

Lots of patents really are just ideas for things which might work rather than things known/proven to work. Possibly these should be differentiated somehow, and maybe have a shorter time horizon on expiry if they're not "upgraded" from an idea patent to a working-device patent. But that's a legit reason for idea patents to exist, and that's the present reality.
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I love the concept of "Just-in-time learning". I think it applies to other things too.

In my personal life is when I am working on a large scope project, I tend to try to anticipate every single thing that I will have to do up front. But I've found I always miss something or misunderstand a requirement. It's way more efficient to just do things as they come up, and I'm trying to switch to that method more often.

I definitely relate to taking some kind of programming related course and they teach you about something you will never use, that people rarely use in real world scenarios, but there's still a pressure to make sure I fully understand it.
Exactly.

>it's cheap. Yes it doesn't last a lifetime.

It lasts longer than most people think. I have a few IKEA dressers that I bought in 2012 that still look like new. Will they become antiques? No, but I only paid 80 dollars for them so I don't care.

>Yes it needs a lot of wood.

Carbon sink. Better than plastic.
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I should have clarified that Relay flavored GraphQL from a backend perspective is lacking in this respect.

Yeah, I think relay is pretty good, but I'm not sure the broader ecosystem is really there yet. Outside of node, the backend libraries aren't really fully baked yet, and the standard seems to have some holes. But I'm somewhat optimistic.
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